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den houses is .not only expensive, but it is 

 meaningless, inartistic, structurally unsound, 

 and not durable. The practice of plastering 

 these garden structures with slabs of "virgin 

 cork" is indefensible, and should never be in- 



Fig. 69. — Summer house 



dulged in by the man who aims at an artistic 

 result. 



The most suitable material for a summer 

 house is oak; for the sides cleft oak slats, and 

 for the roof sawn oak weather-boarding, 

 straight of grain and sound. The framing may! 



